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Amazing. So he said that speech on this day? In my opinion, it was an important part of the American "Civil War" history.

All4one wrote:

Amazing. So he said that speech on this day? In my opinion, it was an important part of the American "Civil War" history.

Yup, November 19th, 1863 was the day the address was given.

poopo wrote:

Wow thats cool I that is....147 years ago?

Right, a score is 20 years. Thus, 20 times 7 is 140, and then plus seven is 147.

By the way, there's a reason why the billboard in my sig this week is Abe Lincoln. 
Also, I wore my T-shirt with Lincoln's face on it today. 

rufflebee wrote:

My dad tried to make me memorize the Gettysburg Address once
I got like the first two sentences down, but thats all.

LOL, I've memorized certain parts, but definitely not the whole thing.

rufflebee wrote:

I never learned much about the Civil War in Elementary school, and we're learning about ancient civilizations right now so yeah. I don't know very much about it

I've never gotten Civil War in school, and definitely won't until at least high school. Even though we're learning explorers and the Revolutionary War, which we already did 3 years ago.

XplodingEggs wrote:

Isn't it "Four score and seven years ago"? 
Anyways, colios. 

That's the way it actually was in the speech, I just made the topic that to parody it.

I don't know. I have enough to keep up with in Canadian history... 

Cool    we just started leaning about the antebellum period    today i read about his debates with.... um.... that guy who he ran against for senator    [/fail]

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.